SharePoint 2010 Managed Client Object Model

The Client Object Model was introduced in SharePoint 2010 as an easier way of working with SharePoint data from a client computer, whether it is a .NET application, a Silverlight application, or an application that uses JavaScript in the browser. The Client Object Model is designed to allow you to write code similar to code you would write for the Server Object Model. It doesn’t contain all of the methods of the full Server Object Model, but it does give you a convenient way of accessing site, web, and list information that you will be using later in the book. The part of the Client Object Model that you will be using for working with jQuery is the ECMAScript programming interface, which gives access to the API using JavaScript or Jscript.